What are you all up to today? - part 3
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Last year I was diagnosed as pre diabetic Type 2, slight change of diet, a little more exercise and a reduction in weight has seen that reverse to 'normal' when tested again after 12 months. Although I have been told it will occur its just that I have delayed its onset by being slightly healthier in my ways.
But when on holiday, eating healthily tends to go out the window, and I love my 'Smarties'
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Medical science is improving all the time and eventually there will be a cure. Hopefully, it will come sooner rather than later!
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No doubt you'll be watching the outcome of the Uber court case with great interest, Malcolm.
Anyway, watch that diet.....one of my clients had a leg removed as a result of diabetes.
Write your comments here...Yes, I just got the BBC breaking news on the result about 4 minutes ago. The downside is that it could put a lot of people out of work and on to benefits if these so-called employers go bankrupt as a result of the ruling.
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I just can't imagine dinner2go being able to survive if all their drivers were paid minimum wage, plus holiday pay, sick pay and all the other rights that employees have. Where would the money come from? Some of our customers
are already complaining of the cost of delivery fees. I would love to be earning £7.25 an hour but the reality is that companies in this business, can't afford to pay it. So any such ruling could mean that I would lose my job.0 -
Dominos gave me normal employee status when I worked for them, yet I ended up earning less money because they severely restricted the number of hours of work. I was asked to take three days off per week and on the days I worked, it was usually a maximum of 4 hours in the evening. As soon as the orders stopped coming in, I would be sent home and at that time, I wasn't receiving any pension. So two of us had to survive on my earnings alone.
By working for dinner2go, there is daily cash flow and this helps my status with the bank. I can easily get credit, loans etc. if I needed it. In fact last time I paid money into the bank that cashier pointed out to me that they coukd give me a preferential rate if I needed to borrow any money!
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Margaret has been a type two diabetic for some years now. As she is normal weight she really gets annoyed at the constant barrage on the news linking diabetes only with being overweight. Obviously that is true but has no relevance to Margaret!!!
She has taken Metformin and Gliclacide for years but she is now on a slow release insulin as well which seems to give better blood sugar results. The real danger with diabetes is the associated problems that can occur especially heart problems and you could have knocked Margaret down with a feather when she was told she needed a heart bypass operation as a consquence of the diabetes. Not that I wish to frighten anyone but one common effect of diabetes is the damage to nerves so someone could have a heart attack without knowing it in the conventional sense so best to attend all those appointments at the surgery.
David
As a Type 2 Diabetic for 26 years I'm on a similar if not identical regimen to Margaret Metformin, Gliclacide & one insulin jab at bedtime. Diagnosed at a Work Place Session, when I was still playing sport & enjoying it !
The problem with "ON LINE " searches is that you get a lot of dross & hysterical twaddle to sort thro' before you come to that one life-saving nugget! The number one point to always bear in mind is that Diabetes , if not strictly ( and I do mean STRICTLY ) controlled is a progressive illness and much damage may have been caused before the symptons reveal themselves. You can reduce your weight, eat sensibly & watch your Blood Glucose levels start dropping BUT you won't reverse the Neuropathy that has already occured
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Margaret has been a type two diabetic for some years now. As she is normal weight she really gets annoyed at the constant barrage on the news linking diabetes only with being overweight. Obviously that is true but has no relevance to Margaret!!!
She has taken Metformin and Gliclacide for years but she is now on a slow release insulin as well which seems to give better blood sugar results. The real danger with diabetes is the associated problems that can occur especially heart problems and you could
have knocked Margaret down with a feather when she was told she needed a heart bypass operation as a consquence of the diabetes. Not that I wish to frighten anyone but one common effect of diabetes is the damage to nerves so someone could have a heart attack
without knowing it in the conventional sense so best to attend all those appointments at the surgery.David
As a Type 2 Diabetic for 26 years I'm on a similar if not identical regimen to Margaret Metformin, Gliclacide & one insulin jab at bedtime. Diagnosed at a Work Place Session, when I was still playing sport & enjoying it
!The problem with "ON LINE " searches is that you get a lot of dross & hysterical twaddle to sort thro' before you come to that one life-saving nugget! The number one point to always bear in mind is that Diabetes ,
if not strictly ( and I do mean STRICTLY ) controlled is a progressive illness and much damage may have been caused before the symptons reveal themselves. You can reduce your weight, eat sensibly &
watch your Blood Glucose levels start dropping BUT you won't reverse the Neuropathy that has already occuredWrite your comments here...I've never yet been prescribed Gliclazide. Why would that be?
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Yoda lay hee hoo
You are a lonely goatherd?
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Spent a very pleasant morning meeting up with Helen & Trevor ( not forgetting Bodie!) for coffee and then a walk across the dunes to the lost church. It was good to meet you and didn't the dogs get on well together?
Enjoy the rest of your stay in Cornwall and hope we'll be able to meet up again before too long.
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Good for you ABM for sticking to the advice, it must be hard at times but the alternative is so much worse!
Brue, I see the results every morning. A neighbour who played at a much higher level of amateur footy than I ever could, limps past my windows going to collect his Daily Groan. Seriously he looks twenty years older than
me not the 5 months he is. He lost a couple of toes to Type 2 which was amazing really 'cos his lady died 2 years before from a type 2 induced Heart attack. What makes it most upsetting is that that lady was the very
first Diabetes Clinic Clerk I met at the hospital on the day of my first blood test.B
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Good for you ABM for sticking to the advice, it must be hard at times but the alternative is so much worse!
Brue, I see the results every morning. A neighbour who played at a much higher level of amateur footy than I ever could, limps past my windows going to collect his Daily Groan. Seriously he looks twenty years older than
me not the 5 months he is. He lost a couple of toes to Type 2 which was amazing really 'cos his lady died 2 years before from a type 2 induced Heart attack. What makes it most upsetting is that that lady was the very
first Diabetes Clinic Clerk I met at the hospital on the day of my first blood test.B
Write your comments here...That's scary!
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Margaret has been a type two diabetic for some years now. As she is normal weight she really gets annoyed at the constant barrage on the news linking diabetes only with being overweight. Obviously that is true but has no relevance to Margaret!!!
She has taken Metformin and Gliclacide for years but she is now on a slow release insulin as well which seems to give better blood sugar results.
As a Type 2 Diabetic for 26 years I'm on a similar if not identical regimen to Margaret Metformin, Gliclacide & one insulin jab at bedtime. Diagnosed at a Work Place Session, when I was still playing sport & enjoying it !
The problem with "ON LINE " searches is that you get a lot of dross & hysterical twaddle to sort thro' before you come to that one life-saving nugget! The number one point to always bear in mind is that Diabetes , if not strictly ( and I do mean STRICTLY ) controlled is a progressive illness and much damage may have been caused before the symptons reveal themselves. You can reduce your weight, eat sensibly & watch your Blood Glucose levels start dropping BUT you won't reverse the Neuropathy that has already occured
Write your comments here...I've never yet been prescribed Gliclazide. Why would that be?
As ABM said, Diabetes is progressive if not controlled, so presumably you do not need additional medication at present.
My sister started with just one type of pill then had to have additional ones, then insulin.
Watch the sweet potatoes, I am reliably informed that they are only slightly less bad for you than ordinary potatoes.
My sister only eats a very small portion of potatoes.
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Been down that road myself, Robsail !
It's damned strange when a middle-aged male doctor has that effect on me when the attractive young trainee nurse last week got my lowest reading for years
!There are Times when I really worry about me
Write your comments here...at least my GP is an attractive blonde!
Sven or Olaf?
Write your comments here...it is definitely a lady doctor! We know her and her family!!!!!!
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We've just done our first delivery of the day. It was originally an Uncle Sams order but Uncle Sams is closed today for some reason so it was converted into a Macdonalds order. A new dinner2go manager seems to have taken over, a lady manager this time.
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Youtube's great for demos, I often use it.
Booked a quote for a new gas boiler, switched on the heating and our old boiler immediately stopped working.
Should have replaced it this
summer but didn't get round to it. OH thinks he can repair it with a spare part tomorrow, will limp along til the new boiler is in place. Thank goodness it's fairly mild.
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A normal working day today (5 am to 7 pm), but tomorrow we're off down the motorways after milking. A 70th Birthday party near Bristol, Then a few hours sleep at a Travel Lodge (thank you for the extra hour!), then back up to Cumbria for a 70th Birthday
Afternoon Tea Party.Then afternoon milking.
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We're parked on Chapel Road in the Worthing town centre waiting for the next order. It seems a quiet evening so far but is this the lull before the storm?
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Had a lovely ride over to Stamford on the bus through all the local villages - the autumnal trees looked beautiful. Bought some Christmas cards in the Charity Christmas card 'shop' in St. George's church, a new scarf and some Irish Breakfast loose leaf tea on the market. Also got Mr H a 'walking' coat with detachable inner fleece in the BHF charity shop
. His old one had decided to fall apart after 10 years There is a much better class of charity shop in Stamford 
. Also bumped into a lovely friend that I hardn't seen for a while and organsied meeting up for lunch in a few weeks. Caught the bus back and then met daughter and 2 grand-daughters for a cream tea at a 'pop up cafe' at their local farm. All in all a very good day.0 -
Nice day today so after a quick tidy up indoors and putting the washing machine on, I put my gardening clothes on and spent 3 hours in the front garden, just have a bit more to do in one corner then that's the front sorted for awhile.
Lunch, then into town to get my flu jab and some shopping, drop in to big sis for a cuppa and chat. Roads were really busy not usual for us. Skies are clear tonight so will have a look for the 'Northern lights' they have been pretty good north of us in the
last week but not seen them from here yet.0 -
Spent a very pleasant morning meeting up with Helen & Trevor ( not forgetting Bodie!) for coffee and then a walk across the dunes to the lost church. It was good to meet you and didn't the dogs get on well together?
Enjoy the rest of your stay in Cornwall and hope we'll be able to meet up again before too long.
Lovely to meet up and it was good that the dogs got on well. We took Bodie on the beach afterwards, still didn't wear him out though.
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Nice day here, a bit of sun and quite mild .
OH has been working on DD's curtains and I have been shortening some Ikea stainless steel legs to go under a unit in one of her bathrooms. The legs come in 80mm and 160 mm, but she needed 120mm.
DD rang a little while back, her husband wants to treat us to lunch out tomorrow. Not sure why, but it is a nice gesture, we do do a lot for them (though I say so myself!).
So we will get our flu vaccinations first thing then head down to their place and see what I get done before lunch. After lunch it is back to the grindstone for me, while OH and DD are going to look at curtain material.
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Spent a very pleasant morning meeting up with Helen & Trevor ( not forgetting Bodie!) for coffee and then a walk across the dunes to the lost church. It was good to meet you and didn't the dogs get on well together?
Enjoy the rest of your stay in Cornwall and hope we'll be able to meet up again before too long.
Lovely to meet up and it was good that the dogs got on well. We took Bodie on the beach afterwards, still didn't wear him out though.
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We had a springer spaniel like that. We would come back from a long walk exhausted and she was still ready for more.
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Here we go again.
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